I did my critique on the movie Moneyball based off on a true story by Michael Lewis. Brad Pitt stars as Oakland athletics GM Billy Beane. Just coming off a great season, his star players Johnny Damon, Jason Isringhausen and Jason Giambi are free agents and there is no way after an amazing performance they can resign them. He is forced to reinvent his team on a tight budget; Beane will have to outsmart the richer clubs. Moneyball is an inspiring movie for sport fans. Throughout the movie, struggles to make a decent team with the B-list players. During the movie, Beane makes a trip to Cleveland, Ohio to negotiate a deal with the Indians. While making a deal, audiences see that there is no deal being made because the GM there is listening to a Yale graduate named Peter Brand. Peter Brand graduated from Yale with an economics degree. Though he is not doing anything related to his major, he has an remarkable ability to use statistics to determine the best players. Based off his statistics, he tells who to trade or keep on the baseball team. Beane is intrigued with Peter and hires him to be his assistant. The audience sees the struggles that Beane’s team goes through and in a strategic attempt to save the team, Beane decides to trade his good players and brings in people who peter says are worth it. While he is making these decisions that can possibly get him fired, we see the news and radio talking about his decisions and we find out Billy is going with the approach to win games with stats. He took this idea from a guy named Bill James. Bill James was working at a Kansas cannery when he came up with an idea that would transform baseball. The movie Moneyball tells the story of that idea and how the Oakland Athletics ran with it. James talks about the film and how his idea changed baseball. Not only does this idea sound ridiculous but it does not work in the beginning. Though it is rough in the beginning, Towards the mid...

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...The film Moneyball was based on the bestselling non-fiction book by financial journalist Michael Lewis, the film tells the true story of how Beane and his youthful economics-whiz assistant turned around the fortunes of the Oakland Athletics by using a new approach called "sabermetrics". This involved using statistics to analyze how many times players stayed "on base" (thereby increasing their likelihood to score runs), rather than relying on the traditional method of valuing players’ batting average. This new approach allowed Beane to ‘buy’ players he could actually afford, and take on the top major league teams using a different strategy than they did.
The first thing about Moneyball to analyze is what makes Billy Beane a leader. As we discussed in class, he had a vision and he worked for it creating a bold plan, believing in his vision, and having the resolve to see his plan through. Billy Beane redoubled his efforts to make his vision a success. He traded players who had the wrong attitude and met face-to-face with the remaining players to explain his direction over and over. Beane’s resolve and persistence paid off, and the A’s went on to win 109 games that year.
What’s the leadership lesson? Well, it helps to take note that Moneyball is not strictly a baseball story. It is also a story of rapid change in leadership in the business world. In the film Beane changes from participative to autocratic to paternalistic...

...Moneyball is a book written by Michael Lewis when he follow Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane in the summer of 2003 to see about his approach to running a major league organization. He figures out that just because you may not have all of the money in the world, say like the New York Yankees, that you can still win your division and make the playoffs.
Billy Beane shows you his approach at how he win’s as many games as he does that no other team was willing to follow. He would pay attention to statistics that no one else did, like on base percentage, amount of walks, and slugging percentage, and made his team into one of the best in the majors. Since his theory has been proven it’s been shown that on base percentage and slugging percentage are better signs of offensive success and avoiding an out is more important than getting a hit.
Oakland had one of the smallest payrolls in the league with $55 million and were forced to get small market players to fill their roster. That meant that every pick they had in the amateur draft counted and couldn’t afford to miss.
In the book it talks about how Billy got his idea on why to run his organization like this, and he got it from Bill James. Bill James was a writer and obsessive baseball fan who wrote many books on baseball, but his Baseball Abstract are the ones that had the most impact. James’ books though were laughed at when they first came out and didn’t really make an impact until Billy Beane,...

...﻿Moneyball Assignment
This assignment will allow you to answer the following question: How does Billy Beane do it and can we learn from his practices? The essence of the Moneyball project will be for you to write a 4-5 page paper on all of the following:
-What is the Moneyball Theory?
-In your opinion, does it have merit?
-How important are forward thinkers in Sport/Coaching?
-Your thoughts on challenging established practices and policies
Billy Beane and Peter Brand
Peter brand is a yale graduate in economics
Billy needs players on a tight budget to compete with other teams that are rolling on a big budget like the Yankees. 1/3 of the budget
Billy beane has been through the people who judge players based on their own opinions and thoughts because he was that player
Peter brand-knows nothing about baseball but uses statistical analysis to determine players.
Determine based on biased reasons of perceived flaws and defects such as age appearance personality
Using stats to find value in players that are usually overlooked
Cant replace these players can only recreate them- giambi is power player who gets on base, must recreate his on base number percentage with players. Committee doesn’t agree on his choices saying they were negative people but beane is looking at numbers and they get on base.
Kevin Youkilis - king of walks
Intangibles that only baseball fans understand
You cannot predict a guys future because you don’t know...

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Moneyball Is A Business
Baseball has always been an old fashion type of game. Of course it is America’s past-time, but in Moneyball, the General Manager of the Oakland Athletics Billy Beane and his assistant Peter Brand reinvent the game of baseball by using a statistical formula to rate players. The Oakland Athletics was the first franchise to apply Moneyball to the Major Leagues. Billy Beane did this because his team is a small market franchise, which means that they do not bring in as much revenue and TV ratings as other franchises. These small market teams have to rely on the draft and developing players, while the big market teams go out during free agency and sign big name players who are already established at the Major League level. The theme of Moneyball is changing the game of baseball by giving small market teams a way to compete with the big market teams because professional baseball is a business. Billy Beane wants to win a World Series just like any other General Manager in baseball, but what he wanted to accomplish by using the Moneyball philosophy was changing the game and creating a new system to build a franchise that allows small market teams to be able to find good players and to be able to stay within the teams budget. Moneyball is a business move for a franchise because each franchise wants to win,...

...Moneyball movie quotes unfold smoothly to give us one of those rare movies that even those who couldn't care less about baseball or sports will find engaging. This movie is based on a book by Michael Lewis and it gives the audience and interesting take on how to win at the game of baseball and it's also based on the true story of real life Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) and how he turned around the team with the help of an Ivy league graduate computer whiz Peter Brand (Jonah Hill). The chemistry between Pitt and Hill helps drive the movie and gives it life with Pitt giving one of his best performances. Moneyball is a sharp, shrewd, intelligent and satisfying movie and for all the concentration on numbers, it never loses sight of the fact that this is a game of people.
Moneyball: The Fine Art of Strategy and other Valuable Lessons
What's Moneyball about?
* Oakland A's GM Billy Beane is handicapped with the lowest salary constraint in baseball. If he ever wants to win the World Series, Billy must find a competitive advantage. Billy is about to turn baseball on its ear when he uses statistical data to analyze and place value on the players he picks for the team.
* Moneyball can be seen and understood as a sports movie, and it is that, but if one looks only that far when watching this film, then one misses out on half the story, if not all of it.
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...the best, people who have a nonstop track record of excelling in their profession. Quite often people are heading to or at the pinnacle of success in their careers, the future looks bright but then life throws them a curve ball. Everything collapses and they find themselves at the bottom of the ladder, sometimes even lower than from where they started. An unexpected medical complication, breakdown of relationships or any other reason could be the factor. They are no longer valued; organizations consider them as burned out and an expense and distance themselves. Similarly, people are often under-valued because their potentials are capped under poor management. They tend to be overlooked because they are over shadowed by high achievers. Moneyball gives us the example of Scott Hatteberg who seemed to have lost all value after undergoing surgery on his elbow. No other team wanted him but he was acquired by the Oakland A’s and repositioned. He went on to become one of the most valuable players. Similarly, Chad Bradford had statistics going his way, but he was an un-favored player because he didn’t fit the conventional look of the pitcher and ‘looked funny’ when he pitched. An astute manager would acknowledge their track record, recognize existing potential and give them a new opportunity/chance. By recognizing the individual’s capabilities he/she can be strategically repositioned in the organization to make up for the skills lacking in a particular team or...

...﻿Moneyball is the story of a dynamic change agent who rallied a small group of undervalued professional baseball players and executives to overturn convention and rethink how Major League Baseball (“MLB”) was managed and played.
In 2002, Billy Beane, General Manager of the Oakland Athletics (“Oakland A’s”), faced a critical situation—his baseball team was consistently losing the battle for talent. The best players were being lured to wealthier teams with more lucrative contracts. Constrained by a tight payroll, Beane was forced to find a more creative way to create wins. With the help of economist Peter Brand, Beane pioneered an analytical, sabermetric1 approach to finding the right players and assembling a competitive baseball team. Looking for, in essence, new baseball knowledge, he reexamined everything and created new indicators that could better translate into wins. That's how they found their bargains. These observations often flew in the face of conventional baseball wisdom and the beliefs of many baseball scouts and executives. Many of the players drafted or acquired by the A's had been the victims of an unthinking prejudice rooted in baseball's traditions. With this revolutionary method, the Oakland A’s began to exhibit extraordinary results, proving that Beane had been correct in his insistence that change was necessary and forever altering the landscape of professional baseball.
When promoting change in the face of systematic resistance, a change...

...stolen bases against a certain pitcher rather than just as a whole. In 1984, James created a statistical collection known as the “Project Score Sheet” in which volunteers contributed thousands of pieces of data from every single game of major league baseball ever played. James went on to write many volumes of “The Baseball Abstract” where he created his own complex formulas and categories in which to evaluate players such that he could place an exact value in terms of overall worth to any player on any team. James later went on to work as a senior consultant to Red Sox co-owner John Henry and worked closely with Theo Epstien in assembling the Red Sox teams of the mid 2000’s. A great example of his practice can be seen in the 2013 film “Moneyball” in which Oakland Athletics manager, Billy Beane, is seen using these techniques to make decisions that wouldn’t be made had these systems not existed. For instance, a player with a higher overall batting average may now be substituted with a player who had a lower overall batting average, but a higher one against the particular pitcher at hand.
The Oakland Athletics shocked major league baseball and the country by winning twenty games in a row in 2002. The 2002 Athletics were faced with a common dilemma, replacing key players that were instrumental to the team’s success in the past. Jason Giambi, Johnny Damon, and Jason Isringhausen were invaluable to the team but would not be rejoining in April, leaving a huge...